Word: sambaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strangers the spirit of the carnaval seems like drunkenness, actually it is an elation that has little to do with alcohol. It is carried on the thumping rhythm of the samba, the marchas, and the belligerent batuque, a transplanted African war dance. To these tunes, some lovingly composed and rehearsed beforehand, some made up white hot as the musicians parade, the whole city, rich and poor, moves out into the streets...
Banned from this year's carnaval are the sambas with satiric verses that might offend touchy European countries. But one of this year's sambas describes Italians fleeing through the desert, praying to Allah for water. But there is still more than enough fun for the Cariocas and their guests-dancing in the streets, wearing gay costumes, jamming aboard the open streetcars, making up new and scurrilous samba verses and above all enjoying four unfettered days in a formal country and an uneasy world...
...shag is passe; the rhumba, conga, and samba are now in vogue. Hollywood has turned towards Latin-America for inspiration, talent, and color. The course enrollments in Spanish and Portuguese have increased noticeably during the past year. Americans are looking southward with benevolent smiles and shiny gold dollars. There is no doubt that America has gone the South American way for a very good reason: there is practically unanimous agreement that it is to our interest to keep Hitler and war from the Western Hemisphere...